a diffuse or climbing shrub, 5–12 ft. high; bark brownish-grey; twigs cylindric, grey- or (less often) rusty-furfuraceous, sometimes glabrescent; leaves herbaceous, subrugulose above, grey or rusty woolly-pubescent on both sides but more closely and persistently beneath, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, base truncate or very shortly and sometimes unequally cuneate, very rarely subcordate and entire, margin else-where coarsely often irregularly toothed, 2–5 in. long, 1–2 1/2 in. wide; petiole pubescent or glabrous, sometimes winged by the lamina above, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long; cymes numerous, open, in lax panicles 3–6 in. across; bracts 1/2 lin. long, lanceolate, rusty- or grey-pubescent; pedicels 1/4 lin. long, pubescent; calyx campanulate, 3/4 lin. long, rusty- or grey-tomentose; lobes longer than tube; corolla yellowish-white, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, outside puberulous; lobes considerably shorter than tube; filament 1 lin. long; anthers exserted beyond tips of corolla-lobes; capsule 3/4 lin. long, puberulous. null
